Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on cover of TIME magazine

A close-up of TIME magazine's June 10, 2013, cover with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. (time.com)

May 30, 2013 10:13:54 AM PDT

May 30, 2013 (CHICAGO) --

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is on the cover of TIME magazine's June 10, 2013, issue, set to hit newsstands on Friday.

Playing off Chicago's basketball team, Emanuel is labeled a "Chicago Bull," and the cover reads, "Mayor Rahm Emanuel is fighting both crime and failing schools. So why are people mad at him?"

Writer David Von Drehle dives into the city's politics, violence, failing schools and financial crisis- and asks Emanuel why the former White House chief of staff left President Barack Obama's administration to run a city so plagued with problems. The photo by Mark Seliger shows Emanuel on a CTA elevated train platform, with a Brown Line train to Kimball behind him.